Peer Evaluation / Feedback for EDC 102 Context Statement
Author: (Person who wrote report.)Stacey Editor: (Person evaluating report.)Jon Makin Total Score for this Evaluation: 29/35 pts
The purpose of the context statement in EDC 102 is to provide each student with an opportunity to demonstrate his or her ability to research a school, its district, and its community in order to better understand its strengths and challenges.
As a peer editor, your tasks are:
Read author's report.
Carefully evaluate report by assigning a score for each criterion
provide constructive comments that will help the strengthen the author's report for each category.
Create a link to your evaluation at the end of the report.
Rubric
Introduction = 4 / 5 pts.
5 - Intro provides an overview of the upcoming analysis, including what school/district/community is being analyzed, what aspects are being analyzed, and who the report is intended to inform.
4 - Intro names the school/district/community and previews the scope of the report, but does not describe who the report is intended to inform.
3 - Intro names the school/district/community but not much else.
2 - Intro fails to name the school, district, and community.
0 - No introduction section is apparent.
Constructive comments about report's introduction:
Introduction was pretty good but I might consider adding or making some of the following changes.
Wikipedia is generally a very unreliable source. I have had professors tell me that a paper will automaticaly fail if wikipedia is referenced in any way.
I might think about separating your community and introduction. The intro is supposed to inform us what the paper is going to talk about.
Organization = 5/ 5 pts.
5 - Report includes an Introduction, a Conclusion, and sections for the School, District, and Community. Within each section, paragraphs logically group the information presented.
4 - Report includes all of the sections mentioned previously, but does not break down information into paragraphs within each section.
3 - Report is missing one of the sections.
2 - Report is missing more than one section.
0 - Report does not include any sections.
Strengths and constructive comments about report's organization:
Your organization of the report is great
Mechanics = 5/ 5 pts.
5 - All information in the report is cited using APA styled- citations after the information and in a Reference section at the end of the report.
and
There are extremely few typos and misspelled words in the report.
4 - Most information is cited using APA style.
and/or
There are a noticeable number of typos or misspellings.
3 - Some citations in the References section are not in APA style, e.g. URLs are listed without the title of the website.
and/or
There are many typos, misspellings, or other writing errors.
2 - Most of the report's information is not cited, or APA style was not used.
0 - Report does not include a Reference section.
Strengths and constructive comments about report's organization:
Spelling mistakes were nil, everything seemed to be cited correctly.
Conclusion =3 / 5 pts.
5 - Conclusion reviews analysis of school, district and community and describes why findings should be important to reader.
4 - Conclusion reviews analysis of school, district and community.
3 - Conclusion does not refer back to report findings.
0 - No conclusion section is apparent.
Strengths and constructive comments about conclusion:
I liked the fact that you included the schools mission statement (I did the same thing) but the conclusion should be a follow up revision of what was discussed throughout the paper. And possibley your own opinion on the findings.
Creativity = 4/ 5 pts.
5 - Report is written in an engaging style.
4 - Report has some interesting sections.
3 - Report generally reports information without seemingly without purpose.
Strengths and constructive comments about presentation:
Its a context report, you made it as engaging as you possibly could
Thoroughness = 8/10 pts
5 - Report includes at least ten different facts in each section (school, community, district) and
compares each figure with another relevant figure (e.g. state or national average) and
states whether or not the school is meeting NCLB standards.
4 - Report includes at least eight different facts in each section and
compares most figures with relevant values and
states whether or not the school is meeting NCLB standards.
3 - Report includes at least six different facts in each section and
compares some of the figures to other relevant figures
2 - Report includes at least four different facts in each section and
compares some of the figures to other relevant figures.
0 - Report includes less than four different facts for any section or
fails to compare any figures with other relevant figures.
Strengths and constructive comments about information contained in report:
The information that you cite is great I might consider adding some more information in the community section: things like
Crime Rate
Average Housing cost
Average household income
Comparison of these to the state average
Ethnic diversity in community vs district vs state
Peer Evaluation / Feedback for EDC 102 Context Statement
Author: (Person who wrote report.)Stacey
Editor: (Person evaluating report.)Jon Makin
Total Score for this Evaluation: 29/35 pts
The purpose of the context statement in EDC 102 is to provide each student with an opportunity to demonstrate his or her ability to research a school, its district, and its community in order to better understand its strengths and challenges.
As a peer editor, your tasks are:
Rubric
Introduction = 4 / 5 pts.
Introduction was pretty good but I might consider adding or making some of the following changes.
Wikipedia is generally a very unreliable source. I have had professors tell me that a paper will automaticaly fail if wikipedia is referenced in any way.
I might think about separating your community and introduction. The intro is supposed to inform us what the paper is going to talk about.
Organization = 5/ 5 pts.
Your organization of the report is great
Mechanics = 5/ 5 pts.
and
There are extremely few typos and misspelled words in the report.
and/or
There are a noticeable number of typos or misspellings.
and/or
There are many typos, misspellings, or other writing errors.
Spelling mistakes were nil, everything seemed to be cited correctly.
Conclusion =3 / 5 pts.
I liked the fact that you included the schools mission statement (I did the same thing) but the conclusion should be a follow up revision of what was discussed throughout the paper. And possibley your own opinion on the findings.
Creativity = 4/ 5 pts.
Its a context report, you made it as engaging as you possibly could
Thoroughness = 8/10 pts
compares each figure with another relevant figure (e.g. state or national average) and
states whether or not the school is meeting NCLB standards.
compares most figures with relevant values and
states whether or not the school is meeting NCLB standards.
compares some of the figures to other relevant figures
compares some of the figures to other relevant figures.
fails to compare any figures with other relevant figures.
The information that you cite is great I might consider adding some more information in the community section: things like
Crime Rate
Average Housing cost
Average household income
Comparison of these to the state average
Ethnic diversity in community vs district vs state